Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Let us put aside for the moment how General Brusilov formulated the counterattack plan of the Southwestern Front.

Because with Admiral Brusilov's caution, it would still take at least a year from making plans, to war preparations, and finally to the launch of the campaign.

In between, or at the same time that the Rakshasa Empire's Southwest Front launched two battles, two battles also broke out in Western Europe, that is, on the front lines of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire, and in the Far East.

The first is the battlefield in Western Europe, the Ypres region in western Belgium, where the Hans Empire and the Allies fought the Second Battle of Ypres.

This battle was originally just an ordinary positional battle, but why was this battle raised separately?

The reason is simple, because the Hans Empire used a new type of weapon in this battle.

That's a gas bomb.

1913年4月22日，汉斯帝国第4集团军向伊普尔地区的约翰帝国第5军、高卢帝国第20军阵地连续施放6000罐18万公斤氯气。

Directly causing 1.5 poisonings, approximately 5000 died.

In the frontal defense position in the Ypres area, a no-man's land 10 kilometers long and 7 kilometers wide was created.

Subsequently, the 26th Army of the Hans Empire, carrying gas masks, attacked from the gap and quickly occupied Langemark and Pilkerham, and then continued to advance towards the Kmina Canal.

It's just that the Hans Empire Base Camp did not expect that the plan would go so smoothly at that time, so it did not prepare much backup force for the 26th Army at all.

As a result, when the 26th Army advanced to the vicinity of the Comina Canal, the gap was blocked by the John Empire and the Gallic Empire.

On April 4, the Hans Empire repeated its old tricks and tried to use poison gas to break through the Allied defense lines.

But at this time, the Allies had realized the power of the poisonous gas in the Hans Empire and distributed gas masks to frontline troops.

Therefore, the effect of the second poison gas attack was not obvious.

Then, starting from April 4 to May 26, in more than ten days, the 5th Army and the 12th Army of the Hans Empire launched an attack on the Allies.

After paying huge casualties, the Hans Empire opened some gaps and forced the Allies to retreat to the outskirts of Ypres.

But it was far from the plan to advance to the Kmina Canal before the battle began.

The Hans Empire considered that its investment was not proportional to its gains, so it ordered to stop the attack.

This battle lasted only about 20 days, and the casualties caused were not too large or serious compared to other battles.

According to post-war statistics, in this 20-day battle, the John Empire lost 1 people, the Gallic Empire lost 3.5 people, and the Hans Empire lost [-] people.

However, the impact of this battle was far-reaching. Because this is the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in the history of human warfare.

This is like opening Pandora's box, and European countries have begun to study this terrible, cheap but extremely lethal weapon.

When the European intelligence was transmitted back to Daxia, Lin Yi was not idle. He immediately ran to a special department of the Weapons Research Institute to meet a special person.

After that, in just one week, a special force appeared in the imperial battle sequence.

This special force has no combat organization, no personnel records, and only a special code name - "Fei".

In the ancient myths of Daxia, Fei is a ferocious beast that looks like a cow, has a white head, a snake's tail, and only one eye.

Wherever this ferocious beast passes, plague will break out, so from the eyes of future generations, they will know what this special force does at a glance.

However, during the century-long period of secrecy in the empire, only a handful of people in this force knew of their existence.

Moreover, the number of this army is only one thousand, and it never expands its recruitment.

And their first appearance was also related to another battle in the Far East.

Spurred by the poisonous gas released by the Hans Empire, Lin Yi formed the Fei Army.

Therefore, Lin Yi wanted to test the actual combat capabilities of Fei's troops.

At this time, Chekosov retreated to the Vladivostok Fortress, so Lin Yi sent his troops to Vladivostok.

Along with the Fei troops, there were 1.2 special bombs.

Don't think Lin Yi is ruthless or cold-blooded.

If the Hans Empire hadn't been the first to use poison gas, he wouldn't have established a special team like "Fei".

Since others had already taken the lead in using poisonous gas, Lin Yi had to set up such a force so that the empire would not be controlled by others in the future.

After establishing such a unit, it is necessary to test its actual combat capabilities.

Vladivostok is a good place to experiment.

First of all, this is a fortress. Even if it is a coastal defense fortress, if you want to take it, the loss will not be too small.

In order to reduce casualties and test the empire's latest weapons, Lin Yi decided to send Fei to Vladivostok.

Li Jinji received the telegram from Lin Yi personally and was very confused.

He didn't remember that he had asked the military for help. Why did Lin Yi suddenly send him a telegram, telling him that a support force was about to arrive in Haishengwei, and asked him to strictly ensure the concealment of this force before it was leaked to the outside world. existence of an army.

Even if the military felt that it was necessary to send him reinforcements, it should not just send him a team of only a thousand people.

All kinds of strange things made Li Jinji very curious about this army.

However, in line with the bounden duty of a soldier to obey, Li Jinji finally just took a regiment of Zhang Yanyu's [-]th Armored Cavalry Division to the station to greet him.

When the train stopped, the compartment door was opened from the inside, and a group of people wearing black military uniforms appeared in front of Li Jinji.

These soldiers exuded a cold aura, as if they were a group of dead people, and their faces were all pale and bloodless.

One of the leading officers walked up to Li Jinji and saluted Li Jinji with a military salute.

Li Jinji looked carefully at the officer in front of him and saw that the military uniform he was wearing was completely different from the military uniform he was wearing.

In addition to the color, there are no imperial military rank insignia on their uniforms. All the symbols have been replaced with small skull symbols.

Li Jinji looked at the eccentric officer in front of him. He frowned slightly, but still returned a military salute.

"My subordinate, Tiao Heel, has met Commander-in-Chief Li." Tiao Heel's voice was a bit cold and hoarse.

"Hit Heel?" Li Jinji frowned slightly when he heard Heel Heel's name.

If he understood correctly, this heel was also a ferocious beast in ancient mythology, a strange bird that brought plague and death, and represented ominousness.

Li Jinji couldn't understand why someone would use such a creature as their name?

However, combined with the cold temperament of Lai Heel, Li Jinji, a veteran on the battlefield, also felt uncomfortable.

It was as if he was being stared at by some kind of creature.